I'm a Native New Englander, though not currently living there, and while I don't have the accent myself I absolutely love it! I wish I had one sometimes, but I can understand why someone might not like the way names are pronounced in it. That's how I feel about New Jersey/New York accents!
I went to school in England for a bit and while I was there I was in class with a few people from Yorkshire and they had really lovely accents, I couldn't always understand everything, but so much of what they said just sounded so beautiful!

Where I'm at in Florida, "T's" aren't pronounced. I really don't mind it; in fact I don't notice it until other people pronounce the "T" (Then they startle me by doing it). Aside from that, our accent is quite normal. Here's what happens with some poor names:

The funny thing is while I am quite good at faking accents, how ever hard I try, I cannot avoid changing T's into D's, or just forgetting them altogether. Unless I'm faking an English accent. Then it is quite easy : )

I am from the Appalachian mountains. My favorite name is Jerry, but it is ruined here where it becomes "Jury." All names ending in A get an EE sound instead (Nora becomes Nory). Also, some middle syllables are dropped. My lovely great aunt Italy was called It'ly. Names that start with ER sound like Uhr (Eric becomes Uhric). I don't find this accent very pretty, but now that I live in another region of the US, I treasure anything that reflects my heritage.